ABSTRACT
Successful psychiatrists necessarily correspond in their natures to the needs and desires of ‘nervous patients’, since the mass of patients decide who is to be the successful therapist, and not the actual value or correctness of the doctor’s own views or behaviour. Obviously, therefore, the greatest successes of all have not belonged to psychiatrists but to the shamans, priests, leaders of sects, wonder-workers, confessors and spiritual guides of earlier times.
